On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0500, Shawn Garbett wrote:
| Maintenance issues aside, if you want an "empirical" study comparing
| perl to python, as well as C/C++ and Java, check the following link:
| http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/cgi-bin/psview?document=/ira/2000/5
| It's the only article I've seen like it.

Same here.  It was in IEEE Computer magazine a few months back.

( For those who don't want to read it, the conclusion is (basically)
that programmer skill is more significant for the quality/performance
of a product than the language used.  Also, scripting languages
(python, perl, tcl, rexx) require less LOC than traditional languages
(C, C++, java) (at least for most apps). )

| If you're serious about making unmaintainable code check out the following:
| 
| http://mindprod.com/unmain.html

Cute.

-D

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